Marcia entered cat-like, brushed her flowing robes aside and sat in front of me on a stool that I had not seen. Her long white hair covered her eyes, but with her back to the candles I couldn’t have seen them anyway. Without saying a word she reached forward and took my cold hand...
His deep voice echoes around each angle of the park, and every word is heard again and again. The crowd sings and hums “The Star-Spangled Banner,” and I feel a surprising amount of national pride through the voices. I take my seat as the umpire shouts, “Play ball!” and the game...
If a word starts with a double vowel, both letters are kept for ease of recognition (for example, outbnd as the abbreviation for outbound instead of otbnd). If further abbreviations are required, you can replace double consonants with single consonants. Even after this step, the word is ...
Yes, there is. The conventional rules for using English words to convey meaning provide that the word “me” in that sentence unequivocally requires the interpretation that your liking for Fred exceeds your liking for me. To convey the other meaning, those rules provide that I would have to s...
You should try to avoid potential clashes caused by having different stopword lists. For example, imagine that you are using Spark 3.x functionality to remove stopwords. Later, your colleague pushes a fix list to the Spark 3.y version source and starts a cluster upgrading process that ...
word and dedication‚ you wouldn’t believe. We had to do a lot of conditioning and drills to get to this point. My team and I worked ourselves to the point of breakage. We worked all summer for this moment. We played against higher level teams to make us better‚ and that was ...
Our notion of specificity is different; we define it as the degree to which a word or phrase is limited to a particular context, domain, or subject matter. In this sense, words with high specificity are those that are most often found in specific, narrow contexts, such as technical jargon...
In addition, in this work, we use the term disturbance to indicate any frequent, small and unplanned service deviation, while we use the term disruption only when we report external works using that word, which refers often to big service disturbances. Table 1. Recent works on passengers’ ...